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RealPlayer Data Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 4 Jan 2008 4696 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

A vulnerability has been identified in RealPlayer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an unspecified buffer overflow error when processing malformed data, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.


Impact

  • Denial of Service
  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • RealPlayer 11.x

Solutions

  • Do not open untrusted media files or browse untrusted websites.


Vulnerability Identifier

  • No CVE information is available

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